Nights for Wednesday 23 April 2025
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The Illegals' Shaun Walker
10:30 PM.The Illegals is described as the definitive history of Russia’s most secret spy program, Read more Audio
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New resource aims to gather data from rugby players on CTE brain disease
10:17 PM.Rob Nichol is boss of the NZ Rugby Players Association and joins Emile Donovan. Read more Audio
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Our Changing World's Claire Concannon
9:25 PM.Emile Donovan is joined by the brain behind Our Changing World, RNZ's premiere science podcast, Read more Audio
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Etiquette for audience participation at the movies
8:30 PM.Movie reviewer Daniel Rutledge joins Nights to share his thoughts on the issue. Read more Audio
8:15 Pacific Waves
A daily current affairs programme that delves deeper into the major stories of the week, through a Pacific lens, and shines a light on issues affecting Pacific people wherever they are in the world. Hosted by Susana Suisuiki.
8:30 Etiquette for audience participation at the movies
Annoying and rude - or part of the fun of going to the movies?
The issue of audience participation at cinemas has been in the news this week after one of the stars of A Minecraft Movie had to step in during a screening to stop unruly behaviour by fans at a screening in LA.
So, what is the etiquette around audience participation at the movies?
Movie reviewer Daniel Rutledge joins Nights to share his thoughts on the issue.
Photo: 123rf
8:45 The Reading
A portrait of a family at their bach, told from five different points of view. The location connects them, but the perspectives are very different.
Meg Alexander reads the second part of 'Shingle Beach' by Carl Nixon.
9:07 Nights Quiz
Do you know your stuff? Come on the air and be grilled by Emile Donovan as he dons his quizmaster hat.
If you get an answer right, you move on to the next question. If you get it wrong, your time in the chair is up, and the next caller will be put through. The person with the most correct answers at the end of the run goes in the draw for a weekly prize.
9:25 Our Changing World's Claire Concannon
Emile Donovan is joined by the brain behind Our Changing World, RNZ's premiere science podcast, Claire Concannon
Claire recording on the Bounty Islands. Photo: Ursula Ellenberg
9:35 Midweek Mediawatch
It's been another big week for the media, including breaking news of the death of Pope Francis, a bizarre moment captured in the Wellington mayoralty, .and RNZ takes some heat from Winston Peters.
Hayden Donnell joins Emile Donovan for Midweek Mediawatch.
Winston Peters in Wellington. 10 April 2025 Photo: Facebook / Winston Peters
10:17 New resource aims to gather data from rugby players on CTE brain disease
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), is a disease linked to repeated head blows.
Awareness of its impact on past and present rugby players is growing, along with dedicated research in the medical world.
Now a new initiative aims to gather more data on the condition, to try to help diagnose the condition.
The Brain Health Service was launched this week by the New Zealand Rugby Players Association, World Rugby and New Zealand Rugby.
Rob Nichol is boss of the NZ Rugby Players Association and joins Emile Donovan.
Billy Guyton was diagnosed with CTE after his death in 2023. Photo: Photosport
10:30 The Illegals' Shaun Walker
The Illegals is described as the definitive history of Russia’s most secret spy program, from the earliest days of the Soviet Union to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, and a revelatory examination of how that hidden history shaped both Russia and the West.
Author Shaun Walker joins Emile Donovan.
The Illegals author Shaun Walker Photo: Supplied/Shaun Walker
11:07 Pocket Edition with Maggie Tweedie
Tonight on Pocket Edition, Maggie Tweedie introduces us to the freshest music and a UK Broadside Ballad Industrial worksong champion who is travelling across Aotearoa.
